Museums & Exhibits

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center of Moscow

I was a consultant for the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center of Moscow, one of the first institutions of its kind in Russia. The museum, which opened in 2012, welcomes thousands of visitors annually and promises to have a major impact on the understanding and perception of Russian-Jewish history in Russia itself. I contributed primarily to the conceptualization of the galleries on “Migration: The Jewish Diaspora,” “Shtetl,” and “Cities and Beyond: The Jews of Late Imperial Russia.” I also served as scriptwriter for the entire museum, which entailed writing dozens of primary, secondary, and tertiary texts as well as hundreds of image and artifact captions.

Press

“PSU professor helps create new Moscow-based Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center,” OregonLive, Feb. 6, 2013

“Russian Jewish museum opens in Moscow,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 2012

 “In Big New Museum, Russia Has a Message for Jews: We Like You,” New York Times, Nov. 8, 2012

“Of Place and Memory”

In 2012, I conceptualized and curated a public exhibition at Portland State University’s library on the yizkor book (memorial volume for East European Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust). PSU Library’s Special Collections includes a large number of yizkor books. The exhibit has since become a permanent virtual exhibit on the library’s website. Visit the exhibit, “Of Place and Memory: The Yizkor Memorial Book as a Window Into a World Destroyed.”